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Home » Free From Recipes » Gluten Free Recipes » An Italian Apple Torta With A Twist (Gluten-free)

21st September 2015 ·

An Italian Apple Torta With A Twist (Gluten-free)

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OK it’s official! I am crazy.

Some of you will know from my last couple of posts that I was asked to design a two course meal to include Grana Padano cheese.  Now in my head I thought that I didn’t need to include that kind of cheese in a pudding and merrily developed a beautiful freefrom frangipane tart.

On Friday I discovered that in actual fact, the desert would have to include the cheese too if it were to be entered into the competition it was designed for!

So, back to the drawing board I went.  It had to be Italian…which rulled out many options in my head.

Finally I came up with an Italian apple torta with a twist.  We all know how well cheese and apple go together.  And sweet digestive biscuits and cheese too.  Hence the cake with apple and cheese was born!

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Having decided what I was going to bake I found that I had no apples left!  Thanks to Facebook and a wonderful community of people who live around here, within a few hours I had a bag of freshly picked apples from a lovely friends garden!

So here it is…my second desert entry into the Francesco Mazzei – ‘Top Chef’ Blogger Competition!

Don’t be put off by the cheese.  It isn’t ‘cheesy’, and my cheese hating daughter loved it!  The Grana Padano just adds something to the cake that makes it rather special…you get the sweet hit of apples and sugar combined with the salty flavour from the cheese.  It is neither overly sweet, nor savoury.  I can’t describe it…you’ll just have to try it!

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Italian Apple Torta With A Twist

Gluten-free, Low sugar
5 from 2 votes
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Author Vicki Montague, The Freefrom Fairy

Ingredients
  

  • 100 g butter or margarine
  • 100 g soft brown or demerera sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 200 g gluten-free plain flour
  • 50 g ground almonds
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tbsp ground flax seeds
  • 1/4 tsp xanthan gum
  • 125 ml milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 40 g Grana Padano cheese - finely grated
  • 4 sweet eating apples - peeled
  • For the topping:
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 tbsp soft brown or demerera sugar

Instructions
 

  • Beat together the butter or margarine and sugar until light and fluffy
  • Add the eggs and continue to beat for a further minute (don't worry if the mixture separates, it will come back together)
  • Add the flour, almonds, baking powder, ground flax seeds, xanthan gum, milk, vanilla extract and finely grated cheese and beat together for a further minute.
  • Chop half of the peeled apples into small chunks and add them to the batter.
  • Carefully stir, then pour into a greased round 21cm tin
  • Slice the remaining peeled apples and arrange in a concentric pattern on the top.
  • Finally sprinkle with 2tbsp sugar mixed with 1tsp cinnamon
  • Place in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees (180 degree, fan) for 40 - 45 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.
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This is part of my entry into the Francesco Mazzei – ‘Top Chef’ Blogger Competition.  I was provided with some ingredients and a Supermarket voucher to undertake the challenge.

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  1. Fede Pastabites says

    28th September 2015 at 2:57 pm

    Ah this looks great! I’d almost thought of a similar combination but chickened out (different fruit) so well done and good luck again!

  2. Honest mum says

    28th September 2015 at 2:47 pm

    5 stars
    This looks incredible, love that it’s gluten-free! Ooh, just gorgeous!
    Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays

  3. Kate - glutenfreealchemist says

    23rd September 2015 at 9:50 pm

    Doh! So you got two great recipes for the price of one? I can think of worse outcomes!
    This sounds even better than the franginpane! The combination of the cheese and apple must be divine. With such amazing creativity you deserve to do really well in the competition! I so wish you lots of luck……
    Sounds like you are really going places right now. I am so so pleased for you xx

    • Vicki Montague says

      28th September 2015 at 2:34 pm

      Thanks Kate! What a lovely comment 😉

  4. Alida says

    21st September 2015 at 6:43 pm

    5 stars
    Fantastic torta!! Love the look of this cake. It seems very soft and.. wow I have never used Grana in cakes but I can see how this can work very well. Great recipe. Francesco Mazzei should be happy!

    • Vicki Montague says

      22nd September 2015 at 2:25 pm

      Ah thank you lovely Alida! If you give it a try you must tell me what you think!

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